We describe a protocol for disclosing unfavorable information-"breaking bad news"-to cancer patients about their illness. Straightforward and practical, the protocol meets the requirements defined by published research on this topic. The protocol (SPIKES) consists of six steps. The goal is to enable the clinician to fulfill the four most important objectives of the interview disclosing bad news...

AIMS To ascertain whether a physician's positive or negative attitude significantly impacts the quality of life of ophthalmic patients. METHODS A standardised, validated, time trade-off, utility instrument was administered to consecutive vitreoretinal patients by interview to assess the quality of life associated with their current ocular health state (baseline scenario). Each was then given ...

background :people are increasingly interested in health news. as a mass media, the ‘islamic republic of iran broadcasting’ (irib) has the highest number of target audiences. in iran, some people follow health news via health programs on satellites and other means of communication. however, all of these programs do not live up to the standards of scientific evidence. in this study, we examined ...

The impact of television on children has been analyzed from various perspectives. The social cognitive theory of mass communication explicates the mechanism of children’s social learning from television. The premise of this study is that television may have positive effects on youngsters by exploring prosocial themes and developing community-oriented content. A distinctive example of prosocial ...

The written medium through which we commonly learn about relevant news are news articles. Since there is an abundance of news articles that are written daily, the readers have a common problem of discovering the content of interest and still not be overwhelmed with the amount of it. In this paper we present a system called Event Registry which is able to group articles about an event across lan...

What is the information content of news-based measures of sentiment? How are they related to aggregate economic fluctuations? I construct a sentiment index by measuring the net amount of positive expressions in the corpus of Economic news articles produced by Reuters over the period 1987 2013 and across 12 countries. The index successfully tracks fluctuations in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at ...

this article is part of a much broader study of persuasive techniques in television news in iran. as a very important part of irib news irinn has been chosen for this study. if we assume that one of the most influential television news, the power of persuasion to influence the audience is very important. it seemed that choosing the highest hypothetical level of news and deconstructing it would ...